[00:05.19] I wanna dedicate this one to Robert 'Yummy' Sanderford [00:09.14] And all other lil' young niggaz that's in a rush to be gangstas [00:12.81] As a young nigga, I'm almost swellin in the wind [00:15.99] Give anythang, to be that innocent again, when I was ten [00:18.36] I didn't bang but I was hangin with the homies [00:20.52] Tell them niggaz started slangin that they don't know me [00:22.72] I got my hustle on, learned to ignore what couldn't pay me [00:25.24] Lately I've been tryin to make a bill-ion, can you play me [00:27.48] With that jealousy they need to miss me, don't sweat me [00:30.04] If them cowards really want me, come get me, and even I [00:32.48] Someday will die but I'm cautious, I'm fin' to ride [00:35.34] Put down the top, now we flossin [00:37.24] Hit the freeway, let the wind blow, drop the window [00:39.59] Workin with a twenty sack of indo, feelin good [00:41.79] Stop through the hood, grab the young thugs [00:44.05] And I can't help but reminisce back when we slung drugs, know it's bad [00:47.04] But all we had was our hopes and dreams [00:49.11] Couldn't see unless we learned to slang dope to fiends [00:51.23] As young niggaz [00:53.86] He's the kind of G like everybody knows [00:55.85] As a young nigga [00:57.15] He's always G'd up, from head to toe [00:59.60] My memories as a young nigga [01:00.96] Always got it blown like Al Capone [01:03.70] Young nigga [01:05.59] He's the downest G I've ever known [01:09.56] Back in Junior High, when we was barely gettin by, when daddy died [01:13.08] That's when my momma started gettin high [01:15.07] My neighborhood was full of drivebys, couldn't survive [01:17.22] All our homies livin short lives, I couldn't cry [01:20.12] Told my momma if I did die, just put a blunt in my casket [01:22.47] Let me get my dead homies high [01:24.16] Come follow me throughout my history, it's just [01:26.54] Me Against the World stuck in misery; as a young nigga [01:29.06] My only thing was to be paid [01:31.41] Life full of riches avoid snitched cause they shady, back in the days [01:34.56] We always found the time to play [01:37.08] But that's before they taught them gangbangers how to spray [01:38.86] Not just L.A., but in the Bay and in Chicago and even St. Louis [01:41.55] Every stadium that I go, when will they change? [01:43.73] Stuck in the game like a dumb nigga [01:45.84] Remember how it was, to be a young nigga [01:48.30] He's the kind of G like everybody knows [01:50.98] As a young nigga [01:53.14] He's always G'd up, from head to toe [01:55.99] My memories as a young nigga [01:58.03] Always got it blown like Al Capone [02:00.78] Young nigga [02:02.51] He's the downest G I've ever known [02:05.76] I'm tellin you. [02:09.45] . To be young, have your brains and have every? and all that [02:13.47] Yo, y'all niggaz don't know how good you really do got it [02:17.02] Muh'fuckers need to just calm down [02:19.35] And peep what the fuck they wanna do for the rest of the life [02:20.93] 'Fore you end your life before you BEGIN your life [02:23.23] You dumb nigga [02:25.94] Now that I'm grown, I got my mind on bein somethin [02:28.30] Don't wanna be another statistic, out here doin nuttin [02:30.41] Tryin to maintain in this dirty game, keep it real [02:32.61] And I will even if it kills me, my young niggaz [02:36.22] Break away from these dumb niggaz [02:38.03] Put down the guns and have some fun nigga, the rest'll come nigga [02:40.39] Fame is a fast thang, that gangbangin [02:42.78] Puttin niggaz in a casket, murdered for hangin [02:45.17] At the wrong place at the wrong time, no longer livin [02:47.15] Cause he threw up the wrong sign, and every day [02:50.50] I watch the murder rate increases, and even worse [02:53.43] The epidemic and diseases, what is the future? [02:55.24] The projects lookin hopeless, where [02:57.86] More and more brothers givin up and don't care [02:59.69] Sometimes I hate when brothers act up, I hit the weed [03:02.18] And I proceed to blow the track up, for young niggaz [03:04.70] He's the kind of G like everybody knows [03:07.79] For these young niggaz [03:09.56] He's always G'd up, from head to toe [03:13.04] My memories as a young nigga [03:14.29] He always got it blown like Al Capone [03:17.09] Take it slow nigga, it's for the young niggaz [03:18.93] He's the downest G I've ever known [03:22.00] As a young nigga [03:23.66] He's the kind of G like everybody knows [03:26.29] He's always G'd up, from head to toe [03:32.37] Memories as a young nigga [03:34.99] He always got it blown like Al Capone [03:38.74] He's the downest G I've ever known [03:41.50] (Pac talking overlaps singing last four lines) [03:43.41] This go out to the young thugs, the have-nots (you know) [03:45.59] Little bad motherfuckers from the block (that's right) [03:47.31] Them niggaz that's thirteen and fourteen [03:49.92] Drivin Cadillacs, Benzes and shit (I see you boy) [03:52.50] Young motherfuckin hustlers (make that money boy) [03:54.73] Stay strong nigga [03:57.95] You could be a fuckin accountant, not a dope dealer [04:00.30] YouknowhatI'msayin? (Go to school nigga, go to school) [04:02.02] Fuck around and, you pimpin out here [04:03.52] You could be a lawyer (really doe) [04:04.75] Niggaz gotta get they priorities straight [04:06.32] (Don't see Johnny Cochran out in this motherfucker) [04:07.76] Really doe. young niggaz. little RahRah (sup nigga) [04:09.10] Especially my little cousins don't be no dumb guy [04:10.39] (Don't be a dumb nigga, listen, young niggaz) [04:11.75] Singers freestyle and skat to the end of the song [04:12.54]